Message Notes

In the Beginning...

December 25, 2011

Anyone remotely familiar with the Bible hears this and immediately thinks of the creation story in Genesis. And that is precisely what the Gospel writer, John, is giving us in this passage, a new creation story. And like the creation story, this story begins with God. In the beginning was what John calls the Word... and that Word was with God, and that Word was God. And God came to us in the form of a little baby depicted by the Christmas story as a baby in a manger. Ever wonder what Mary, Joseph and the others there might have thought as they looked into the manger? Let's explore that!